| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century. By Judith Sealander. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x, 374 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-521-82878-3. Paper, $28.00, ISBN 0-521-53568-9.)

The title says it: Efforts by twentieth-century American governments to improve children's lives mostly failed. As evidence, Judith Sealander furnishes nine broad-ranging case studies: of juvenile justice, government responses to child abuse, aid to poor children, regulation of children's work, compulsory high schooling, preschool education, public education of disabled children, schemes to improve juvenile nutrition and fitness, and immunization policy. Each chapter-length study runs from 1900 or earlier through 1999 or 2000; among the book's many strengths is particularly full discussion of recent decades, where many historians' accounts stop or run thin.

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